Advertising device.



No. 768,892. PATENTED AUG. 30, 1904.

E. J. BLISS.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 3, 1903.

NO MODEL.

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UNTTED STATES Patented August 30, 1904.

ELMER J. BLISS, OF EDGARTOVVN, MASSACHUSETTS.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,892, dated August30, 1904.

Application filed November 3, 1903. Serial No. 179,695. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMER J. BLIss, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Edgartown, Massachusetts, county of Dukes, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to advertising devices, and more particularly toa device that is intended to advertise cigars, cigarettes, and the likeby the use of a human model constructed and arranged to smoke the cigarsautomatically.

In its general features the invention comprises a model provided with achamber in the mouth portion of the head, which has communication with atubular cigar or cigarette holder through which air is drawn, the indrawn air containing the smoke to be expelled through the mouth-orifice.-The model may also be provided with flexible diaphragms forming cheeks,which may be alternately distended-and drawn in to correspond to themovement of the human cheeks in smoking.

These and other features constituting this invent-ion will be more fullyset forth in the following specification and will be clearly defined inthe claims forming part thereof.

\Vhile it will be understood that the invention is capable ofconsiderable modification in its details of construction andarrangement, I have shown in the drawings a preferred mode of embodyingmy invention, in which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation, partly insection, of a model of the human figure equipped with my invention. Fig.2 is a detail horizontal section on the plane indicated by line 2 2 ofFig. 1, showing the construction of the apparatus in the mouth portionof the device. Fig. 3 is a similar view of a slightlymodified form ofthe invention.

In the form of my invention illustrated in the drawings I construct amodel of the human form, including the body portion a and the headportion Z). The body or trunk 64 is made hollow, provided with asuitable door a to close the interior, which contains any suitableoperating mechanism. In this case the operating mechanism comprises asmall electric motor 0, operated from an electric battery 0',

which may be placed inside the trunk and provided with a circuit-closerd, preferably placed at some easily-accessible point. The motor 0 ismechanically connected with a reciprocating piston-rod c of the air-pumpe. The pumpchamber is provided with a connecting-tube 0 whose upper endis in communication with a tube or chamber f, arranged in the mouthportion of the model. In this case the chamber f has apertures at eitherside adjacent to flexible diaphragms or cheek-pieces g, which arearranged in the face of the model to simulate cheeks. The chamber f isalso in communication with a tubular holder it, adapted to hold a cigar,cigarette, pipe, or like article to be smoked. The rear end of thetubular holder It may be provided with a check-valve it, which allowsair to pass through the tube into the chamber f, but prevents its returnin the opposite direction. Alongside of the cigarholder is themouth-orifice i, which is provided with a check-valve 2 which preventsair from passing inward through the mouth-orifice to the chamber f,while allowing the expulsion of air from the chamber f out through themouth-orifice.

In the operation of my device the circuit is closed at (Z, thus causingthe pump to be actuated, the descent of the piston drawing air inthrough the holder it, while the ascending movement of the piston eXpelsthe indrawn air, which has become laden with smoke from the ignitedcigar, out through the mouth-orifice t'. At the same time that the airis drawn in to cause the burning of the cigar the cheeks g are alsodrawn in in order to simulate the checks of one smoking. Upon theexpulsion of the air the checks are distended.

In order to obtain a normal distension or plumpness of the cheek-piecesg, I may provide, as shown in Fig. 3, a somewhat larger cheek-cavity.which may be filled with cotton-batting, wool, or othereasily-compressed substance which will not interfere with the passage ofair to contract or draw in the cheeks.

Without attempting to set forth all the changes in form, construction,and arrangement that may be made in embodying the principles of myinvention or all the uses to which said invention may be applied, What Iclaim is- 1. A model provided with a chamber in the mouth portion of thehead, a cigar-holder arranged to communicate with said chamber, flexiblecheek pieces arranged adjacent to openings in said chamber, and anair-pump having communication with said chamber to draw air into saidchamber and to expel it therefrom, substantially as described.

2. The advertising device comprising a model, the flexible cheek-piecesconnected thereto, an interior chamber having the apertures adjacent tosaid cheek-pieces, an airinlet and an air-outlet passage, and a devicefor drawing in air and expelling it to simulate the action of smoking,substantially as described.

3. The advertising device embracing in its construction the model, thetransverse chamber located in the mouth portion of the model, a pumpcommunicating therewith, a tubular inlet-passage, and an outlet-passage,both communicating with said transverse chamber, and flexiblecheek-pieces adjacent to the ends of said transverse passage,substantially as described.

4. The advertising device embracing a model provided with cheek-pieces,means for normally distending the cheek-pieces, means for drawing airinto the interior of the model and expelling it therefrom alternately tooperate said cheek-pieces, substantially as described.

5. A device of the class described embracing in its construction thehollow model provided with an air passage or chamber whose ends arecovered with flexible diaphragins, valved-controlled inlet and outletpassages, the inlet-passage being formed as a holder for a cigar, andmeans for alternately drawing in and expelling the air, substantially asdescribed.

6. A device of the class described embracing in its construction themodel provided with an air passage or chamber, whose ends are coveredwith flexible diaphragms, the end portions of said passage beingprovided with a porous compressible mass of fiber, a pump for indrawingand expelling air, said pump having communication with the aforesaidpassage in order to increase or diminish the internal air-pressureadjacent to the diaphragms to simulate the action of the checks insmoking, substantially as described.

7 A device for simulating the action of smoking, embracing a model whosecheek portions are provided with openings covered with flexiblediaphragms, said model having also an inlet-tube adapted to hold acigar, and an outlet-tube, combined with means for simultaneouslydrawing in air through the inlet-tube and drawing in the flexiblediaphragms, said means acting also to simultaneously expel air and puffout said diaphragms, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 15th day of October,1903.

ELMER J. BLISS.

In presence of- Geo. N. GODDARD, KATHARINE A. DUGAN.

